Who are primary care doctors and what are their duties?

Primary care doctors are the ones who undertake the medical care of the patients. From checkups, to providing of treatments to the patients, and giving of recommendations to them; all things are being taken care of by the primary care doctors.

There are different kinds of primary care doctors inStaten Island:

• Family practitioners
• Internists
• Pediatricians
• Gynecologists
• Nurse practitioners

Now, let's have a look at their duties:

• Basic duty: The prime duty of physicians is to treat the patient. However, in order to do so, they need to have a look at the patients’ medical history. This would let the doctor know about the patients present medications being taken, operations he or she has gone through and few more details related to their health. After studying the medical history, doctor job is to examine the patients and prescribe the medicines and tests like X-ray, blood pressure, ECG and few more, if required.
• Expertise in diagnosing patient problem: To treat the patient a doctor needs to have good knowledge about the diseases and problems, which a common man is facing nowadays. In fact, they should be skilled and experienced enough to diagnose the patient problem quickly. However, to be expertise in it a physician needs to have good education from the best medical schools.
• Provide general health information to patients: Another important duty of physicians is to make the patients aware of the various factors like hygiene, medicines, tests, vaccinations and more. This would help in educating the patients beforehand, which might be helpful for them in their future. For example, beforehand if patient is made aware of the disease called malaria caused by mosquito bite due to contaminated water in and around the house, a patient won't let the contaminated water to gather nearby their house. Rather they would make sure that other people also follow the hygiene path, which would protect their loved ones from the malaria.

However, in order to be specialized in all the above duties, doctors should have good education, as well as certification in their respective field. Apart from this doctors who are working under physicians group in New York, they are said to be the best doctors for taking care of their patients.

So, if you are looking for such doctor then don’t be in a hurry, take your time till you are not sure that the doctor you have chosen is right for you and your loved ones.